Clean Elections Wrapped 2025: A Year Arizona Showed Up, Learned More, and Voted With Confidence

Every year tells a story. In 2025, Arizona’s story was shaped by millions of small but powerful choices. Voters checked their registration before heading to work. Students watched their first candidate debate between classes. Parents used the Voter Dashboard to walk their teens through how local elections work. Across the state, Arizonans didn’t just participate; they took action. They leaned in.

And through every moment, Clean Elections worked to make the process clear, accessible, and trustworthy. This is our wrap-up of the year you helped create.

A Year of Elections That Got People Talking

2025 brought a full slate of local elections across cities, towns, and districts. While each community had its own issues on the ballot, one trend held steady statewide. Voters were hungry for reliable information. Turnout in several municipalities surpassed previous off-year benchmarks, particularly in areas where new educational tools and outreach efforts were launched early in the year.

Ballot-by-mail remained a major contributor to participation, with more voters choosing early options than in past cycles. Clean Elections’ renewed emphasis on making voting steps easier to understand helped demystify the process. When voting feels accessible, turnout follows.

Debates That Put Candidates on the Record

This year’s debate season brought robust participation and some of the strongest digital engagement to date. Clean Elections hosted three statewide debates and forums, each streamed online, broadcast across Arizona, and made available on demand for anyone who wanted to revisit key questions.

Viewer numbers climbed throughout the debate season, helped by upgraded streaming capabilities and clearer navigation that made it easier to find exactly what people were looking for. These events continued our core promise. Give every Arizonan a direct look at the candidates. No commentary. No noise. Just information they can use.

New Tools That Changed How Arizona Engages

2025 was a launch year. Clean Elections introduced several tools, updates, and resources that reshaped how voters prepare for elections. Each one was designed to remove friction, reduce confusion, and build trust.

Enhanced Voter Dashboard

This year’s updates brought clearer registration lookup, combined district information, ballot tracking links, and step-by-step voting instructions in a unified hub.

Youth Voting Hub (18–24)

Clean Elections continued its dedicated young adult voting section, giving new voters a streamlined guide they could actually understand. Universities and community colleges shared it widely throughout the year.

Civic Learning Series

Short, visual explainers on topics like “How Ballot Counting Works,” “What Ballot Curing Means,” and “Why Local Elections Matter.” Each piece was built for quick understanding and high shareability.

On-the-Ground Outreach From Yuma to Flagstaff

2025 wasn’t just digital. Clean Elections showed up statewide. Our team attended community events, county civic events, regional voter-education programs, and Phoenix Fan Fusion 2025. Partnerships with tribal communities and rural counties expanded the reach of voting resources to places that often face barriers in access.

Highlights include:

• Collaborations with educators to bring election literacy into classrooms
• Tabling at dozens of community events, from the State Capital to Fan Fusion
• Training sessions that helped community leaders share accurate voting information

These efforts created thousands of direct touchpoints that shaped confidence heading into each election.

A Clean Elections Content Year Built for Clarity

2025 also marked a shift in how information reached voters. Clean Elections expanded its communications efforts, with clearer email modules, shorter updates, and more accessible guides written for all reading levels.

Highlights included:

• A redesigned newsletter focused on timely reminders and essential “what you need to know today” content
• New blog coverage on The People's Ledger, from ballot education to myth-busting
• Video explainers in Inside the Issues and Beyond the Ballot AZ
• A more consistent debate promotion strategy that boosted attendance across platforms

Every piece was anchored in the same mission. Make the process easier to understand. Build trust through transparency. Keep voters informed without overwhelming them.

A Year Defined by Arizona’s Engagement

The real headline of 2025 wasn’t a statistic or a tool launch. It was the way Arizonans interacted with the process.

More people used official voter education tools. More tuned into debates. More asked questions and checked their information early. More looked for facts instead of commentary.

When people are given clear, accessible, nonpartisan information, they participate with confidence. That’s the story of this year.

Looking Ahead to 2026

Next year brings new elections and new opportunities to build on the foundation set in 2025. Clean Elections will continue expanding voter tools, improving debates, and delivering the resources Arizonans need to make informed decisions.

This year proved something important. When information is accessible, people engage. And when people engage, Arizona moves forward. Your participation made 2025 a year worth reflecting on. Every vote, every question, every debate watched, every tool explored. It all mattered.

And we’re just getting started.

December - 2025